Friday Phenomena

On a cold cloudy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, politics gets profane.

From FrontpageMag, the 20th anniversary of "the Wichita Horror".

From Townhall, why the left is outraged about Fox News host Tucker Carlson's coronavirus vaccine monologue.

From The Washington Free Beacon, a left-wing activist sets up a climate plan, from which he stands to profit.

From the Washington Examiner, the exodus from California could result in the state losing a House seat and an elector in the Electoral College.

From The Federalist, the corporate media ignore President Trump's role in the development of a coronavirus vaccine.

From American Thinker, the buildup of Vice President-elect Harris begins.

From CNS News, congresscritter Jim Jordan (R-OH) asks a real question about the media.

From LifeZette, six men are indicted for allegedly plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer (D).

From NewsBusters, CBS host Stephen Colbert's ten worst softballs for President-elect Biden and future First Lady Jill Biden.

From Canada Free Press, Dr. Anthony Fauci refuses to say the obvious.

From Global News, police in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada issue their seventh ticket for alleged public health order violations.

From TeleSUR, the Brazilian Supreme Court orders mandatory coronavirus vaccination.

From The Conservative Woman, fifty years of betrayal caused the mess over U.K. fishing.

From the Evening Standard, U.K. Prime Minister Boris "the Spider" Johnson apologizes for his messy hair.

From the NL Times, members of Extinction Rebellion glue their hands to the ground and glass doors at Schiphol Airport.  (My own experience at Schiphol was not pleasant, as I wrote back in May 2017, but I didn't resort to doing anything that stupid.)

From Deutsche Welle, Germany makes regulations to determine who gets the coronavirus vaccine first.

From ReMix, its déjà vu for migration into Germany.  (If you read Hungarian, read the story at Magyar Hírlap.)

From Sputnik International, according to the space agency Roscosmos, cosmonauts and training center staffers have received the Russian coronavirus vaccine.

From The Sofia Globe, Bulgaria names a Russian diplomat persona non grata for allegedly spying on the military.

From Ekathimerini, the UNHCR calls for a "comprehensive response to migration" after a woman falls out of dinghy and dies near the Greek island of Lesvos.

From Balkan Insight, the International Organization for Migration closes a migrant camp in Bosnia after authorities allegedly neglected basic services for it.

From EuroNews, migrants in the Balkans deal with violence and vigilantes.

From ANSA, Italy will become a coronavirus "red zone" over Christmas.

From France24, French President Emmanuel Macron attributes his coronavirus infection to negligence and bad luck.

From El País, the archaeologist who discovered Roman ruins in Spain's Basque region.

From Euractiv, five E.U. countries object to the bloc's latest hydrogen "manifesto".

From Morocco World News, in November, Morocco exported two million tonnes of food products to the E.U.

From Hürriyet Daily News, Turkish President Erdoğan accuses parties who oppose his own of "pure fascism.

From Armenpress, Defense Minister Vagharshak Harutyunyan visits military positions near Armenia's southeastern border.

From The Times Of Israel, 63 percent of the Israeli public plan to receive a coronavirus vaccine.

From Egypt Today, Egyptian President Abdel El Sisi inspects the Central Ring Road.

From the Ethiopian Monitor, Ethiopia puts a large bounty on leaders of the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

From The New Arab, how Russia under President Putin helped crush the Arab Spring.

From IranWire, stories of sexual slavery in an Iranian prison.

From The Express Tribune, tensions between Pakistan, India and China have spiked in 2020.

From the Khaama Press, an explosion in the Afghan province of Ghanzi kills 15 people, including 12 children.

From the Business Recorder, more on the explosion in Ghanzi.

From ANI, India's coronavirus recovery rate increases to 95.4 percent.

From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka will not allow prison visits on Christmas.

From The Jakarta Post, 15 drug convicts, including an American and two Hong Kong residents, are transferred to a maximum security prison island in Indonesia.

From the Borneo Post, Christians in areas under Malaysia's conditional and recovery movement control orders are allowed to attend Mass, but not to go caroling.

From Gatestone Institute, according to Hungarian government officials, "Europe's borders must be protected".

From The Stream, how the Maccabees speak to us now.

From The Daily Signal, 2020 has shown that what happens on campus doesn't stay there.

From The American Conservative, listen to the people who live in the suburbs.

From Fox News, the Biden transition team takes only a limited number of questions from reporters.

From CBS Philly, President-elect Biden observes the 48th anniversary of the traffic accident which took the lives of his first wife and their baby daughter.

From The Daily Wire, Biden nominates a Native American to be secretary of the interior.

And from the New York Post, according to some customers, containers of Chick-fil-A's Polynesian sauce spontaneously explode.